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Last week, Blizzard released its first roadmap for Diablo 4, giving fans a quick rundown of what's in store for the rest of the year, from seasons to overhauls to cross-franchise "IP collaborations" coming to the game. It also teased a second expansion coming for 2026 alongside a new playable class.

In a recent interview with gaming publication The Game File, Blizzard's Rod Fergusson, the head of the Diablo series and games at the studio, said, "We're here for the long haul." This was in response to a general question about Diablo, its future, and a possible Diablo 5. It turns out that Blizzard's actual Diablo roadmap covers an entire decade.

"We've been doing long-range planning recently," Rod Fergusson adds. "And I've created a roadmap - a 10-year roadmap. It was actually a 12-year roadmap, and I can see this, this, this, and this and all these different things that we can do, which is really inspiring. And it's really exciting."

G.SKILL has worked with overclocker Seby on breaking the overclocking world record for DDR5 memory frequency speed, with blistering DDR5-12772 speeds.

This new DDR5 frequency record was achieved using G.SKILL Trident Z5 DDR5 memory which has been built with high-performance SK hynix DDR5 ICs, running on an ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard, and Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor under extreme liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling.

Seby is the OC Champion of the G.SKILL OC World Cup 2023, demonstrated his incredible overclocking talent by winning the highly competitive OC event... all on his first international stage debut. Ever since that point, Seby has consistently achieved top rankings on HWBOT, and is a critical contributor to the extreme overclocking scene that G.SKILL is deeply involved in.

RSI announces that CitizenCon will be digital-only this year so that the team can focus directly on Squadron 42's development.

Squadron 42's been in development for quite some time, but RSI has pinpointed a 2026 release for the project. The singleplayer game commands star power with actors like Mark Hamill, Henry Cavill, and Gary Oldman bringing Squadron 42 to life.

RSI intends to hit this 2026 release target and is devoting their time and efforts into Squadron 42. The announcement comes shortly after Star Citizen broke a milestone in funding by reaching over $800 million in total development funding to date.

About a week ago, we reported on a new rumor that AMD was planning to launch a Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU in the Asian market. The GPU would feature 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus with a cutdown version of the Navi 48 die found in the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. According to the initial report, AMD was already working with its partners to create cards for a third RDNA 4 GPU using the flagship Navi 48 die.

Well, thanks to GPU-Z's latest update, v2.65.0, which dropped over the weekend, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is real and will soon hit shelves across Asia. GPU-Z GPU support typically arrives before a product launch or in line with a release. As the latest update also adds support for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and other RTX Blackwell laptop GPUs out shortly, it seems that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will arrive before the Radeon RX 9060 XT.

This brings up the question of why. With the Radeon RX 9060 XT set to compete with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, recent specs and leaks suggest that the mainstream RDNA 4 GPU will feature half the GPU hardware as the Radeon RX 9070 XT. AMD may feel that the performance might not be there, and the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will be a better GeForce RTX 5060 Ti competitor.

The global economic uncertainty from ongoing trade tariffs have clouded sales forecasts for the Nintendo Switch 2, and some analyst firms are lowering their year-one expectations for the new console.

Analyst firm DFC Intelligence has downwardly revised its sales forecast for Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2 system. The stat-tracker dropped its target by 2 million units as it weighs the implications of the current worldwide trade market.

DFC Intelligence originally had a top-line estimate of 17 million units for the Switch 2, but the firm now expects Nintendo to ship 15 million successor consoles in the first year.

AMD has just announced that its next-gen EPYC processor codenamed "Venice" is the first HPC product in the industry to be taped out and brought up on TSMC's advanced 2nm (N2) process technology.

This announcement highlights the strength of AMD and TSMC semiconductor manufacturing partnership to co-optimize new design architectures with leading-edge process technology, with the stars of the show here being the new EPYC "Venice" CPU and 2nm (N2) process node tech.

AMD says that this news also marks a major step forward in the execution of the successful bring up and validation of its 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPU products at TSMC's new fabrication facility in Arizona, Texas, with the company adding "underscoring its commitment to US manufacturing".

Intel's Senior Principal Engineer in Core Design Ori Lempel has revealed the company is already working on the "great-grandchild" of Lion Cove, which will materialize into Griffin Cove.

We know the company has been suffering in its CPU division for many, many generations now, with the real issues kicking off around its 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPUs. But in a recent interview with Intel's Senior Principal Engineer in Core Design Ori Lempel and KitGuru, we're finding out more details of what Team Blue has up its sleeve in the form of Griffin Cove.

Lempel reiterated that Intel has finished its work with Cougar Cove, which will be used inside of its next-gen Panther Lake SoCs which are expected to ship in 2H 2025. It looks like the successor to Cougar Cove will be Griffin Cove, but nothing is official yet... we have heard in rumors from MLID that Griffin Cove would drop in 2027 and beyond with a "Unified Core" that eliminates E-Cores from the desktop CPU.

Some new specs and hardware details surrounding AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT have surfaced. This will be the company's answer to NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. Like the RTX 5060 Ti, the more mainstream-focused RDNA 4 GPU is set to arrive in 8GB or 16GB flavors - however, with slower GDDR6 memory.

The latest piece of information arrives via Videocardz. Citing information from board partners, it outlines a few interesting things about the new Radeon RX 9060 XT. The reference spec includes a Game Clock of 2620 MHz and a Boost Clock of 3230 MHz. According to the report, OC models will push this to 3.3 GHz out of the box with a PSU requirement of 550W - which means some models might feature two 8-pin power connectors.

The updated specs also note that the GPU inside the Radeon RX 9060 XT, Navi 44, is essentially half the size of the GPU inside the Radeon RX 9070 XT - with 2048 Stream Processors compared to 4096 Stream Processors.

The Switch 2's new upgraded chipset has excited developers who seek squeeze more performance out of their games.

With its Tegra X1 and 4GB of RAM, the Switch 1 was pretty outdated at launch, and delivered lower-end performance in modern games. Developers often had to make considerable trade-offs to get their games running on the Switch, often dropping both resolution and frame rates to get stable mobile performance.

The Switch 2 changes all of that. It's capable of delivering 4K 60FPS gaming when hooked up to a TV, and 1080p 120FPS gaming while on-the-go. The Switch 2's new custom onboard NVIDIA Tegra chip can deliver 10x the graphics performance of the original Switch, and the simulation masters over at Firaxis have some stellar praise for the next-gen machine.

The Switch 2 will support Auto Low Latency Mode to enable streamlined and smoother gameplay on specific TVs.

Nintendo's new Switch 2 console has a bunch of new upgrades, and the biggest one is performance. Thanks to a new custom chip from NVIDIA, the Switch 2 can deliver 10x the graphics performance than the Switch 1. That means 4K gaming and other modern NVIDIA gaming chipset features, including raytracing, DLSS upscaling, and what appears to a Nintendo-specific version of NVIDIA's broadcast technology.

We know the Switch 2 can support gaming up to 4K resolution and 60FPS (Tears of the Kingdom runs at this rate), and now we have a small bit of new info about another convenience feature that will help with performance: Auto Low Latency Mode. With ALLM, the Switch 2 communicates directly with the TV or display and tells it to turn on Game Mode for better gameplay.

The latest season of The Last of Us TV series debuts with an exceptional start, and this time around Sony has a product ready to sell to viewers.

The Last of Us season 2 premiered last night to over 5 million people, beating out season 1's original launch viewership.

"The season 2 premiere of The Last Of Us delivered approximately 5.3M U.S. cross-platform viewers, outpacing the season 1 premiere by more than 10%. Season 1 went on to amass an audience of nearly 32M per episode, the largest viewership of an HBO and HBO Max debut season ever," WB Discovery wrote on Twitter.

Microsoft is releasing another Xbox Game Studios game on Battle.net, this time it's Rare's popular live pirate fantasy Sea of Thieves.

Xbox's games everywhere approach has led to first-party exclusives showing up on PlayStation and Switch, and now more first-party games are crossing over to Blizzard's storefront. First we saw Activision's Call of Duty make the jump, now games from satellite studios are coming over, including Avowed, Doom: The Dark Ages, The Outer Worlds 2, and more recently Sea of Thieves.

Sea of Thieves will release on Battle.net on May 22, 2025 with three editions: The standard $40 edition, a $50 deluxe edition, and a $60 premium edition that gets you 6 days early access, access to the closed beta, and comes with extra cosmetics and in-game currency. Sea of Thieves also supports Play Anywhere on Battle.net, so if you buy Sea of Thieves on a Windows PC or Xbox console, you can download it and launch it through Battle.net for free.

If you've ever put off a Windows 11 update because you weren't sure if you had the time to run through the full process before, say, you had to leave the house, then you might be interested to learn about a new feature Microsoft is working on.

This falls neatly into the category of 'simple but useful' in terms of feature additions. Windows Latest caught sight of it in the most recent preview of Windows 11, buried later in the blog post for build 26100.3902 in the Release Preview channel.

The change for Windows Update is simply that it "provides an estimated time for how long your PC will be offline to install updates."

NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards theoretically launch tomorrow (and go on sale the following day), and there's further buzz that they'll be priced more competitively than expected - but there are some big old catches here.

Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) brings us a new pricing and supply leak in his latest video, and it's very much good (well, kind of) and bad news.

The positive facet of this leak is that those rumors of a $379 MSRP for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and $429 for the 16GB flavor are seemingly true, at least according to one source at a major online retailer that MLID spoke to.

NVIDIA has just announced it will be making AI supercomputers in the US, with the new American-made supercomputers to feature NVIDIA Blackwell AI GPUs.

The company announced the news on its official website, saying it has commissioned more than a million squire feet of manufacturing space to both build and test NVIDIA Blackwell AI GPUs in Arizona, and AI supercomputers in Texas. NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips have started production at TSMC's semiconductor facilities in Phoenix, Arizona.

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: "The engines of the world's AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time. Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency".

Mafia: The Old Country is the latest game in the cinematic crime series from publisher 2K and developer Hangar 13. Set in 1900s Sicily, the story is a love letter to classic gritty mafia stories. This is the first game in the series since 2016's Mafia 3, and it made its trailer debut late last year at The Game Awards.

Until today, Mafia: The Old Country had a vague 2025 release window; however, thanks to an update/post to Steam that has since been edited, we now know that the game is set to make its PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC debut on August 8, 2025. For 2K, it's set to kick off a massive second half of 2025 as Borderlands 4 from Gearbox Studios is on track for a September 24, 2025 launch.

2K is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, which is also publishing Grand Theft Auto VI, undoubtedly the most anticipated game of all time. With Mafia coming in August and Borderlands in September, this paves the way for GTA 6 to arrive in either October or November.

Last year, id Software released a free update to the origins of Doom and Doom 2 that brought cross-platform multiplayer across deathmatch and co-op, an updated soundtrack, modding tools, a slew of new maps, including John Romero's Sigil, and more.

This definitive edition of two classic games from the 1990s that helped create a new genre is also getting a physical release from Limited Run that includes a Standard edition, a Big Box Edition that mimics PC game releases from the era, and a special Will It Run Edition that is set to cost $666.66 and be limited to 666 copies.

It's so expensive because it plays into the whole "it can run Doom" meme in the most fun way possible - it ships in a box that can play Doom. Yeah, and not only that, but it also includes a handheld cacodemon that can play Doom, like one of those retro pre-Game Boy handhelds.

Last year, we reviewed the impressive ROG Azoth Extreme wireless gaming keyboard from ASUS. It's an absolute beast of a keyboard that is the main inspiration for the new ROG Azoth X. This, too, is a 75% wireless gaming keyboard. However, it has opted for a more stylish look with a black-and-white aesthetic and custom translucent 'stellar' ROG keycaps that allow the vibrant RPG lighting to pass through three sides of each keycap.

The features here definitely make it a premium board, with gasket mounts, an FR4 positioning plate for a crisp sound, and five layers of dampening, including one silicon and four PORON layers. Like the Azoth Extreme, the new Azoth X is wireless with tri-mode simultaneous device connectivity across wired (USB), low-latency wireless powered by ROG SpeedNova, and Bluetooth.

It's one fantastic-looking keyboard, and it also includes a black-and-white 2-inch OLED panel on the top right that offers access to the keyboard's settings, real-time system monitoring, audio, and other visualization options.

With increased power usage and a shift to a new power connector with the GeForce RTX 40 Series, one that has since been revised to 12V-2x6 for the GeForce RTX 50 Series, the arrival of RTX Blackwell has not been free from reports of melted power cables. The GeForce RTX 5090 is the most power-hungry gaming GPU to date, with a TGP of 600W traveling through a small cable.

Interestingly, the latest case of a melted or damaged power cable isn't related to the newest flagship or even the GeForce RTX 5080 but the 250W-rated GeForce RTX 5070. Based on various investigations and reports, this case looks different because one of the cables on the 12V-2x6 cable from an ATC 3.1 Seasonic 750W PSU has melted, not the connector.

Images and video of the aftermath, which includes a ZOTAC GAMING graphics card, were posted to X by @ere9w - where, upon closer inspection, the issue might be related to the connection on the GPU side.

It looks like we have an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card experiencing "coil whine" with a Redditor reporting more "loud noises" on the expensive flagship GPU. Check it out:

In a new thread on Reddit, user "MutedMobile3977" said that his ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card was giving out a "coil whine" issue and that he figured the issue out after the GPU began making loud noises when under load. He looked closer, discovering that the TUF RTX 5090 card had a damaged capacitor, something that's rare on a high-end GPU.

Physical damage while the GPU itself is running is something that's not common, especially for a new card like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. The GPU itself is running without a problem apart from the loud noises and coil whine, and if a capacitor is at fault, we should've expected some issues with the GPU running... but that's not happening... so far, that is.